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APOLLO LLRV Pilot DON MALLICK -AUTOGRAPHED,HAND SIGNED

8 X 10 LLRV Photo, Signed by Pilot DON MALLICK . American manned lunar lander test vehicle. Study 1964. Bell Aerosystems initially built two manned lunar landing research vehicles (LLRV) for NASA to assess the handling characteristics of Apollo LM-type vehicles on earth. A follow-on contract for three 'production' versions for astronaut training were referred to as LLTV 'lunar landing training vehicles'. The LLRV could take off and land under its own power, reaching an altitude of about 1,220 meters, hover, and fly horizontally. A fan turbojet engine provided a constant upward push of five-sixths the weight of the vehicle to simulate the one-sixth gravity of the lunar surface. The LLRV's, humorously referred to as "flying bedsteads," were created by a predecessor of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the tiny Apollo Lunar Module in the moon's airless environment. (Dryden was known as NASA's Flight Research Center from 1959 to 1976.) Success of the LLRV's led to the building of three Lunar Landing Training Vehicles (LLTV's) used by Apollo astronauts at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, TX, predecessor of NASA's Johnson Space Center. Apollo 11 astronaut, Neil Armstrong first human to step onto the moon's surface said the mission would not have been successful without the type of simulation that resulted from the LLRV's and LLTV's HE attended Penn State University for college, and served in the United States Navy Reserves, and in 1957 he graduated from the University of Florida with his masters degree in engineering. In 1970 he officially retired from the Navy after achieving the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Mallick served the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics as a test pilot from 1957 - 1963. In 1963 he became a pilot at the Dryden Flight Research Center, and in 1967 he was promoted to Chief Pilot. While there he was a project pilot on both the YF-12 and XB-70A research programs.[2] I SHIP WORLDWIDE---I SHIP WORLDWIDE -I SHIP WORLDWIDE---I SHIP WORLDWIDE +++++++++++++++++++++++Combining Lots between two auctions, I will be happy to combine two auctions To save you additional postage- Please pay for these lot/lots & postage. If you are successful in the second auction I will bill you for the additional lot, With no additional postage charges. If you do not win any lots in the second auction, I can just ship the lot to you And not have to bill you again, and wait for payment Thank You Sean Marsar